MOSCOW (TIP): The arms trade adviser to President Vladimir Putin says Russia has begun delivering S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Tass quoted Vladimir Kozhin as […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin, on December 3, vowed Turkey’s leadership would be made to regret the downing of one of Moscow’s warplanes as the top diplomats from both countries held their first high-level […]
PARIS: The issue of climate finance continues to be a major sticky point with the G77 and China, a group of 134 developing countries including India, strongly objecting to the attempts made by the rich […]
LONDON (TIP): Weak inflation data spurred hopes the European Central Bank could deliver more stimulus this week, though European bourses traded in a tight range on December 2, Frankfurt and Paris ceding spartan ground while […]
PARIS (TIP): Leading Imam Hassan El Alaoui says “The whole issue is not about Muslims, but about terrorists. It’s an issue of security for everyone.” France is likely to close up to 160 mosques in […]
LoNDON: An expert in “The Adventures of Tintin” comic book series has been named as Britain’s first ever professor of “graphic fiction and comic art”. Benoit Peeters, 59, a French graphic novelist and critic, will […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain announced a fresh round of deep cuts to public spending Wednesday, but dropped a plan to reduce welfare payments for the poorest and spared the police from savings after the Paris attacks. […]
PARIS (TIP): The ringleader behind the November 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation. Abdelhamid […]
BEJING (TIP): The killings of Chinese citizens by Islamic militants in Syria and Mali place President Xi Jinping in a quandary: How can Beijing respond effectively without betraying its strict stance against intervention? The dilemma […]
KIEV (TIP): Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, energy minister Volody myr Demchyshyn told Ukrai ne’s parliament on Friday days after the Kremlin threa tened to punish Kiev for a po wer […]
LONDON (TIP): ISIS is almost universally detested across the Middle East, Asia and Africa, even in Muslim-majority countries, a new poll has shown. Despite rhetoric about supposed “sympathy” for the terrorist group among Muslims in […]
BEIJING (TIP): An imprisoned 71-year-old Chinese journalist has had her sentence reduced to five years from seven following an appeal, her lawyer said today. Gao Yu appealed her April conviction for leaking state secrets at […]
LONDON (TIP): A high-flying businessman has quit his job, taking a 90% pay cut, so he can show his terminally ill daughter around the world. John Silk, from Croydon, South London, who successfully managed his […]
Ganesha says my devotee Bejan Daruwalla is cut to the bone. He is truly devastated. He is shattered. The blowing to smithereens of innocent lives, specially children, religious intolerance, violence, are the main causes for it. […]
The diligently coordinated and utterly condemnable November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris killing 129 and wounding 352 innocent human beings have terrorized France and the rest of the West. The Islamic State (IS) claimed ‘responsibility’ […]
New Delhi: France President Francois Hollande is going to be India’s chief guest at the 67th Republic Day ceremony on January 26, 2016, according to a French daily Le Monde. Hollande’s presence will be seen […]
JOHANNESBURG: The Sikh community today got its first Gurudwara after an eight-year-long legal battle near Johannesburg. The 2,500 square metres Gurudwara was officially opened in the suburb of Sandton, the economic hub of the country, by […]
New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai are among over 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders by Time magazine for […]
ROME (TIP): Italy is looking for five terror suspects after a tip-off from the United States about possible jihadist attacks on tourist sites in Rome and Milan, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Nov 19. […]
PARIS (TIP): Dramatic CCTV footage has emerged showing the moment a gunman wielding an AK47 opened fire on a pizzeria in central Paris last Friday night. In the first video to be released showing one […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): A Palestinian fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building and three other people were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli police and the army […]
UNITED NATIONS (United States) (TIP): Russia submitted a revised draft UN resolution Nov 19 on fighting the Islamic State group that France said could be partially included in its own Security Council measure following the […]
PARIS (TIP): The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks was killed Wednesday, November 18, in a massive pre-dawn raid by French police commandos, two senior European officials said, after investigators followed leads that the fugitive […]
DUBLIN (TIP): Tens of thousands of homes in Ireland were left without electricity on Nov 17 as a storm swept across the country, causing disruption to flights and ferry crossings. Winds during the storm, named […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Times NOW, the leading English news channel in India, is expanding its presence in the international market. The flagship channel of Times Network, the broadcast arm of Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd, has […]
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